Tuesday Tune Up, Weekly Check In, Food, Fitness, Family, Duran Duran

 

Hey there!  How are you?  What’s been going on?

The Tuesday Tune-Up is where we can have a weekly virtual coffee date and catch up a bit.

I get to share some of the adventures I’ve been having lately when it comes to food, fitness, family and Duran Duran (and other music) and you let me know what you’ve been up to in the comments!

Yup, it’s late today.  You move more slowly when you turn 45.  #truth

Food, Tuesday Tune-Up

 

Birthday week = lots of food.  We don’t normally go out on Valentine’s Day (the limited menus, difficult reservations and exorbitant prices get me upset) so my family spoils me a little on my birthday.  This year I had homemade crepes for breakfast:

Crepes, birthday, breakfast, homemade

Cioppino for dinner (my favorite recipe from Casual Cooking by Michael Chiarello*):

Michael Chiarello, Casual Cooking, Top Chef, Cioppino

a cheese plate and with wine:

Cheese plate

and a homemade malted milk cake for dessert:

cake, malt balls

Jay and I are celebrating Valentine’s Day and my birthday tonight at Hinoki and the Bird.  I’ll share details next week.

 

Fitness, FitFluential, SweatPink, BurnThis, Tuesday Tune-UP

To talk about fitness is sad when you really can’t do much working out.  To drown my sorrows, I’ve been doing a lot of online window shopping.

I might or might not have pushed the buy button for these gorgeously obnoxious Trina Turk leggings though:

Trina Turk, leggings, tie dye

 

These leggings are on sale and if you’re an Ebates member, you can get 5% cash back now!  If you’re not part of Ebates, you can sign up here via my referral link*.

Family

 

A long weekend means a lot of family time and we were lucky enough to be visited by Wild Boy’s first preschool teacher from NYC.  We have Ms. O in town for this whole week so we’ve done a LA things and will plan on doing a few more before she leaves us on Friday.

Disneyland, WildBoy

Wild Boy and Ms. O went to Disney together and spared Jay and I the agony.

Duran Duran, music, 80's music, New Wave, Tuesday Tune-Up

 

So we didn’t #breaktheinternet with #stachingonthevalentine on my birthday but I will give a nice shout out to my friend, Carly@FineFitDay who did her part to help!

Carly, Fine Fit Day, #stachingonthevalentine

Also, did you see that Duran Duran tweeted out my Duran Duran Valentine’s Day Gift Guide?  This definitely made my birthday a happy one!

Duran Duran, Valentine's Day Gift Guide Tweet

In other music news, I bought tickets to 2 shows this past week!  AC/DC at Dodger’s Stadium in September and Steely Dan & Elvis Costello at the Hollywood Bowl in July.   Hyperlinks lead to 2015 tour dates nationwide.

  

 So that’s a summary of what’s been going on in my world this week.

Did you have a Valentine’s Day or Galentine’s Day? 

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